Imperial dispositions are trained habits of attention channeled by rules of relevance

Evidence

Imperial dispositions are at once ways of living in and responding to, ways of being and seeing oneself, ways of knowing that shape which sen- timents are activated, and in turn the affective states that circumscribe what one can know. Rather than the studied surveillance and panoptic gaze that have come to characterize the collective posture of empire’s practitioners, I am drawn to something else: to “skittish seeing” and the adverted gaze, to acts of ignoring rather than ignorance, to inattention, to the shock of recognition, to Sartre’s “abrupt awakenings” and the quick circumspections into which they fold. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1384 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims

Related

• Empire’s knowing operates through inattention and averted gaze, not panoptic surveillance (similarity 0.84)
• Empire operates through trained habits of attention and plausibility rules (similarity 0.83)
• Empire produces and maintains strategic ignorance as a ruling technology (similarity 0.80)
• Imperial dispositions may be the template for modern political self-deception (similarity 0.80)
• Imperial power operates through selective ignoring rather than panoptic surveillance (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Colonial dispositions are trained, contested, and deliberately interpreted #expands (0.75)
• Colonial knowing relied on inattention and adverted gazes more than surveillance #corroborates (0.70) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1384
• Colonial training schemes aimed to shape sentiments and restrict desires #exemplifies (0.65)
• The ruling class controls mental production and regulates ruling ideas #expands (0.65)
• Instructions induce attention processes that deepen with repeated group experience #corroborates (0.60) — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 283
• Authoritarian pedagogy produces docility that serves the oppressor’s interests #expands (0.60) — , the-rod-and-the-child-BOOK, 5000
• Attention strategies are ways of listening responsive to self, others, and environment #expands (0.55) — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 284
• Sound power constitutes a form of imperialistic acoustic domination #exemplifies (0.55) — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 267
• Imperial power produces ignorance through acts of refusal to notice #complicates (0.50)